Fairies Trail : Lumberjack Camp Traditional Geocache
Fairies Trail : Lumberjack Camp
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This cache used to be part of the Royal Deesiders Geotour. The Geotour has now finished and this cache is now part of GCUK's Fairies Trail
Half a mile South of Ballater on opposite side of the River Dee, takes you to a mixed conifer forest. The wood is named after the Pannanich Wells, a spring whose waters were famed for their healing qualities. Ballater grew up to serve the needs of the tourists who flocked to this 'Lourdes of the North'.
A lumber camp was established at Dalmochie in World War II. Such was the need for timber in 1940 forestry might well (should?) have been a reserved occupation. Instead, skilled local men went into the Forces and lumberjacks from Newfoundland, then a Crown Province, were recruited. The Newfoundland Overseas Forestry Unit, the Second World War version of the Canadian Forestry Battalion which had provided much needed manpower to Scotland during the Great War, had 3,500 men. 200 of them worked in Pannanich Wood.
The Newfoundland lumberjacks built cabins of rough hewn logs in a clearing at Dalmochie. The huts were then draught proofed using moss gathered from the forest, which was stuffed tightly between the logs. These huts provided a warm and dry shelter for the lumberjacks, protecting them from the bitter weather.
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